Example sentences of "to defend [pn reflx] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | Trying to defend himself from the verbal barrage , Col Mladenovic moved closer to his two bodyguards and said softly : ‘ You people left the Army . |
| 2 | At his trial at the end of January 1990 , Postelnicu blubbed out his guilt in connection with the shootings in Timişoara and the incineration of the forty victims there , but he was anxious to defend himself from charges of cupidity . |
| 3 | Neil responded by lifting the cane high , ready to defend himself from a man who he saw was bigger , and probably stronger , than himself . |
| 4 | Heterodoxy or heresy originally arises as opposed to doxa , which takes the shape of ‘ orthodoxy ’ to defend itself from the heretical challenge . |
| 5 | Now , under the impact of guilt and remorse motivated by the positive side of the original ambivalent feelings for the father , the ego sought to defend itself from further conflict with its id by erecting safety measures which would protect it from such distorting and stressful impulses . |
| 6 | The point to remember , however , is that these mechanisms occur unconsciously , they 're things the ego does to defend itself from anxiety and from and the result of which is to force things into the unconscious . |
| 7 | Did she not understand that she had no need to fight me , to defend herself from me ? |
| 8 | The decision in 1990 by Britain to join the ERM was , indeed , not the first time this century that she has tried to defend herself from the possible consequences of wrong decisions by her own politicians by linking herself to those made by politicians in another country , through the mechanism of a fixed or managed exchange rate . |
| 9 | Before she 'd had a chance to react , to jump off the bed and snatch the towel , seize some kind of weapon to defend herself from whoever it was prowling around , the bedroom door swung open and the light clicked on . |
| 10 | I just tried to defend myself from the blows . ’ |
| 11 | It is generally recognised at Community level that it is both inequitable and contrary to the objectives of a single market for certain firms in the Community to be immune from the commercial benefits and burdens of being taken over or to be able artificially to create methods to defend themselves from takeovers , while firms from other member states remain vulnerable . |
| 12 | Hence these come to be re-incorporated by workers who then collectively have to defend themselves from being overwhelmed , i.e. , having their internal fears confirmed . |
| 13 | They find it difficult to defend themselves from such attacks . |
| 14 | Are we truly prepared to offer no model of co-operating nations sinking their differences to achieve greater security , or are we prepared to live with a Europe that is increasingly fragmented , where nations ' first demand on sovereignty is to equip themselves with weapons to tackle or to defend themselves from new nations on their own borders that have the same heightened state of frenzy and determination to do the same ? |
| 15 | And then there was another old-timer , Jose-Maria Canizares and there was the water , something the British have always used to defend themselves from invaders … |
| 16 | Police claimed that they were forced to open fire when the crowd attacked them , whereas the ANC said that several of its supporters , grouped to defend themselves from a pro-Inkatha attack , had been shot down by the police . |